Upgrading Windows XP to Windows 7: where to buy Windows 7?

podgy · 18 April 2014 at 10:27PM

Tried the obvious googling, but not as great a range of returns as I was expecting. Some of the cheaper ones were for foreign language versions and unsure whether others include the necessary product key.

Any ideas from where to purchase a decent and lower price version of Windows 7 (32 bit) Home edition pls???

[and yes have thought about the options inc. Linux but need to be able to run MS Office for the sake of my daughter's homework!]

closed · 18 April 2014 at 10:40PM

xp still works

W7 is about a third of the price of a new pc/laptop, and is a few years old itself now.

http://www.ebuyer.com/259862-microsoft-windows-7-home-premium-w-sp1-licence-and-media-1-gfc-02021

podgy · 18 April 2014 at 10:51PM

saying that the security risks will increase over time therefore will have to upgrade at some stage. Cant afford a new PC and it wont take Windows 8 so simply looking for a cheap reliable version of Windows 7 to purchase, but there strangely doesnt seem to be too much out there???

closed · 18 April 2014 at 10:52PM

backup with macrium, run avast and do malwarebytes scans occasionally, don't worry.

podgy · 18 April 2014 at 10:56PM

am running Avast.

closed · 18 April 2014 at 10:58PM

I know

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if you really want w7, maybe if you post what you've found, someone will beat the price. It's about £50 on ebay

Personally, I'm not worried in the slightest about xp support ending.

NiftyDigits · 19 April 2014 at 12:15AM

What is the brand name and model number of the machine?

podgy · 19 April 2014 at 12:34AM

Dell Dimension 4600 Desktop

NiftyDigits · 19 April 2014 at 12:47AM

podgy wrote: »

Dell Dimension 4600 Desktop

Quote the Service Tag written at the back.

Uxb · 19 April 2014 at 8:29AM

I recall that SOME dells of that vintage cannot run Win7 easily as the internal network adaptor does not have a Win7 driver as none was ever written for it.
So if Win7 was installed the only way to get onto the internet would have been to install a separate network card.
Smarter people on here than me will know whether or not this is the case for the 4600 - it certainly was the case with my old Dell Dim 5000 which used a broadcom XP driver.